Scrubs showrunner Bill Lawrence was told by Touchstone Television not to write a series finale, according to Broadcasting & Cable. NBC is now favored to bring the show back for a seventh season, but if it doesn't, ABC would likely step up because the show is now lucrative in syndication, and ABC (connected with Touchstone) could benefit even more.
No new word on Zach Braff's opinion on all this, though he was quoted in Parade over the weekend as being amenable.
This is a pretty big turnaround from what folks were saying a year ago.
I'd heard speculation about the show going on without Braff, but I can't imagine a scenario in which it's much good without him. I mean, do you start hearing Turk's thoughts? Do they bring in some new guy to be the zany person with the weird fantasies?
Anyway, still a good show, if not quite at the level it used to be. So, good news.
It would be odd to catch up, via syndication, and then have no new shows to watch.
That would be very unlike how I caught up on Lost somewhere towards the end of the second season, or how I caught up on the Sopranos by the end of season three.
And, despite how often Scrubs references Sanford and Son... that's not the model of television I subscribe to today.
Arrested Development...?
JD Narating: "Sometimes it seems that your day is one continual game against Death."
Death: "Connect Four."
JD: Diagonal, pretty sneaky, Death.
The rumors of him playing a young Fletch make me angrier than the last time I saw Gail Stanywck on Friday Night Lights.
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